Stephen Nixon

Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI

Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

Test your fonts across the web by easily overriding fonts on any webpage.

Customize your own version of Recursive for code. Build your own, or find the built fonts in releases within the main Recursive repo.

An introduction to FontTools & font development

A collection of resources & recommendations that are helpful for spacing

A quick test of non-linear interpolation for variable fonts, using a “hidden” source as quadratic offcurves.

RoboFont scripts to help clean up working fonts for variable font builds

A WIP theme for VS Code. Based on Night Owl, but with chiller colors & tweaked italics.

DrawBot scripts to loop through all glyphs of a built font binary (TTF or OTF), e.g. for use in proofing & SVG icon font conversion

A minisite for Recursive Sans & Mono, a new variable font from ArrowType

A work-in-progress repo for testing and documenting strategies for vertical metrics in fonts

Scripts for random stuff in GlyphsApp

A minisite for Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, which is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

A tutorial on the basics of shell scripting for font builds, for TypeLab 2021

Notes on type design & development

A demo of how to use DrawBot in VS Code rather than its standalone app

The utility of an 80% keyboard in a 40% layout

A private archive for tests done to explore higher-order interpolation / non-linear interpolation

Tests for browser support of CSS font-style property & variable fonts

A slide presentation put together to explain aspects of why & how I use UFOs in variable font design project.

Scripts I find useful in RoboFont. Many come from the forum or other public sources. I try to include credits in code documentation.

Python wrapper for ttfautohint, a free auto-hinter for TrueType fonts

A place to store & share useful starter character sets for type design in RoboFont.

test your fonts

A simple example of a slider component for SvelteJS

A test for a font handling bug on macOS Catalina

A test of what happens if two axes in a variable font have an overlapping functionality.

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Skrifa/Read-Fonts-based font QA tool (successor to fontbakery)

A library to manipulate font files from Python.

Font quality assurance tool written in Python 3.

Python scripts for the Glyphs font editor

An introduction to OpenType features for type designers.

Red Hat's Open Source Fonts - Red Hat Display and Red Hat Text

Intel One Mono font repository

Misc tools for working with the Google Fonts library

Simple scripts to mark the status of glyphs in RoboFont

A few very simple scripts to quickly manage guidelines in RoboFont.

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Applying AGL (Adobe Glyph List) names to a font based on Unicode values assigned to glyphs

Plate/case designs for the Keebio Nyquist (Rev 3.5)

This is the start of a blog. For now, it is just a repo.

Links to go along with a lecture of advice to college students

A RoboFont extension for scaling your whole font up or down.

Git Repository for Fraunces Font Family

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A reproduction case for a glyphsLib / FontMake issue

A test of fontmake issues when building width-axis fonts from Glyphs sources

TYPETR-TypeLab-Club-Demo

Python Packaging User Guide

A repo to test and report a possible issue in glyphsLib

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QMK fork with Vial-specific features.

A test repo for debugging a potential Python install issue

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cross-platform display typography in python

A Python API to access data from the Google Fonts variable fonts Axis Registry.

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Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families

Testing Figma’s support for variable fonts that contain *only* an Optical Size axis

A set of tests for the macOS rendering of dot components in variable fonts

A test font to test the rendering of component dots on macOS

The open-source repo for docs.github.com

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A public repo to get help in debugging 11ty questions

A proposal for a list format to specify static fonts which should be instantiated from a variable font

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HarfBuzz text shaping engine

The official Unified Font Object specification source files.

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The replacement for RoboFab

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Merriweather is a serif typeface. It is offered in Variable font format and static formats ( OTF, TTF WOFF etc).

Tool that renders mirrored glyph in the background

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Noto fonts, except for CJK and emoji

Prototyping for a URL configuration flow on the Recursive minisite for the Google Fonts API v2

RoboFont extension for making test words

Font files available from Google Fonts

A repo for the Recursive Mono & Sans Specimen – Minisite & Booklet

Eleventy version of my personal site

Scripts to help with Noto GlyphsApp sources

A quick test of new features in DesignspaceProblems

A test-run of the static site generator, 11ty

Monospaced font with programming ligatures